hlovepenn Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I left Dallas on Saturday driving to Fort Myers, FL in a '96 LS400. I filled up in Jackson, MS, and immediately I had Check Engin light, missing and of couse, no cruise control. I stopped several times and disconnected the battery to reset the Check Engine stuff and no go! The next morning, I filled up and ran for a few miles with no problems, so I reset the CE light and had no problems all the way to Fort Myers. This morning, I drive to work and it misses and stumbles all the way--hello Check Engine! I buy sockets and tear into the sparkplug wire harness and make sure all the connections are good. Button it up and do a stress test in reverse and not a miss--perfect. Call my wife with the news, go out for dinner and guess what? Missing--stumbling and Mr. Check Engine! It now looks like maybe clogged injectors--stumbles at low RPMs and runs great at speed! Any suggestions on a great injector cleaner or a great mechanic in Fort Myers? BTW, it evidently has the old ECM--stalls after long drives on cruise control. I changed plugs and wires about 12,00 miles ago. All OEM! Howard Penn 214-455-3406 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsalih Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 You know, don't you just hate that this kind of thing only seems to occur when you're on the road. I had the exact same thing occur to me during a road trip where my car started missing after a fill up. Mine wasn't this bad and it eventually cleared up after a couple of fill ups. Based on what your saying that it happened after the fill up I think you got some bad fuel, possibly water contaminated. Try getting the codes read if that's possible just to make sure. Also, for me a car that misses at idle but otherwise drives fine is normally caused by a worn or broken distributor rotor or the distributor cap is cracked. Don't rush into tearing the car apart yet, and I highly doubt that you have plugged injectors! Let us know what happens or if you get the codes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akewlguy Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hey you at Ft. Myers? I work a few miles from there... Could something have gotten wet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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